Ranks?

How about ranks or something? Not like the U.S. Military with private,private e2, private first class, corporal, etc.
Something simple Like just private corporal, sergeant, Warrant officer, lieutenant, captain, or something, when promoted you get certain bonuses or something, I don't know tell me what you guys think, just an idea.

Some kind of elite trooper would be nice though. 2001 already has Shock Troopers/Amazons, and the 2005 rules have Ninjas, but they're just CC specialists and I'm thinking more of a versatile commando type unit. I suppose that Silent-Sigfig's heavy trooper would work in this role.

maybe if you where doing very small squads and you where playing a role-playing oriented version of brikwars this could be somewhat of a usefull thing. otherwise it's just to complicated (much like hitpoints)

I think being able to promote minifigs would be cool. for example if a minifig manages to kill an entire enemy squad rambo-style, he can be promoted for a dice-upgrade (like d6 to d8 )
Im not sure whether or not to upgrade all stats or only the stats he used for the promotion, like a fig that takes a ton of enemy fire and survives to kick their asses would get a bonus to his AV, or a fig with a rifle that shoots the exposed head of an enemy hero would get a bonus to his RC skill, or a fig that manages to outrun the enemy with a captured flag would get a bonus to his move.

IMHO, a minifig doing something awesome is cooler than a hero doing it, as a hero is expected to do it, while the fig would really be against the odds . . .

- I refuse to be stopped by something as irrelevant as logic, the laws of physics, or common sense -

if 20 chickens can fit in a brick, how many pingpongballs does a crocodile have to eat so it can swim faster than a washing machine?